Bug 1894567 (CVE-2020-25692) - CVE-2020-25692 openldap: NULL pointer dereference for unauthenticated packet in slapd
Summary: CVE-2020-25692 openldap: NULL pointer dereference for unauthenticated packet ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2020-25692
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1895328 1895288
Blocks: 1894568
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Reported: 2020-11-04 14:09 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2021-03-02 22:51 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: openldap 2.4.55
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A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the OpenLDAP server, during a request for renaming RDNs. This flaw allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to crash the slapd process by sending a specially crafted request, causing a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
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Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2020-11-04 14:09:18 UTC 
OpenLDAP slapd crashes on what seems to be a null-ptr-dereference after receiving a malicious TCP packet.

Reference:
https://bugs.openldap.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9370
Comment 1 Cedric Buissart 2020-11-06 08:47:35 UTC 
Created openldap tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1895288]
Comment 3 Cedric Buissart 2020-11-10 08:55:12 UTC 
Upstream fixes:
Main branch :
https://git.openldap.org/openldap/openldap/-/commit/6abfd60078af02d56edb3b6897692cdd09a08971
https://git.openldap.org/openldap/openldap/-/commit/a08a2db4063f54a6217a0f091aebd02f8bdb482e

2.4 branch :
https://git.openldap.org/openldap/openldap/-/commit/4c774220a752bf8e3284984890dc0931fe73165d
Comment 6 RaTasha Tillery-Smith 2020-12-08 15:55:26 UTC 
Statement:

This vulnerability affects the server side only. As a result, OpenLDAP client components, such as the component shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, are not affected by this flaw.
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